DJ Shadow- 3 Freaks

[joethelion]

ok first...

psst - old news boys, the track was released back in October

and over the time, I've gone from absolutely hating it, to loving it, and now - I simply accept it, I neither really hate it... or even like it. At least it's not as bad as the "4 Freaks" remix, which is just straight bad

I just hope that all the album doesn't sound like this, but the David Banner track only alludes to the fact that the whole album is going to be that.

and while this is the first time that Shadow's been really pushing and vocal about this type of music, he has been supporting it for a long while now (ever since the "Diminishing Returns" mix) - so it's not just for the money and how 'crunk' is big, and technically - I think this is called 'hyphy' or something to that effect, it's whatever is the local variant of hiphop is where he's from.

Personally - I haven't been a huge fan of his since 'The Private Press"... I mean - before, the albums and releases had a sense of 'wholeness'... like you'd listen to the first track, and the next thing you knew - it was the end of the album. To me - the "Private Press" sounded almost incomplete, I could never listen to it straight through

It was only until I got the live dvd/cd that I really liked TPP, and that was probably b/c most of the tracks were infused with UNKLE stuff (like "Blood on the Motorway / Rabbit in Your Headlights")